Food & Beverage Category Manager

Overview: Work at the Wills Group - Join Us and Move Your Career Forward! Our commitment to our customers is central to everything we do. We know that we can only deliver on that expectation if we are equally committed to meeting the needs of everyone who works here. That’s why The Wills Group features benefits such as paid leave for new mothers and fathers, a 100% tuition reimbursement program, and continuous professional development and technical training for all of our team members.

Postion Summary In this role, the Food & Beverage Category Manager is responsible for providing input to the company’s overall brand strategy for Dash In, developing menu concepts and items, and building the business case for proposed concepts to support new convenience stores. This position utilizes consumer and trend research as the basis for proposed new menu and beverage concepts to appeal to target audience. The Food & Beverage Category Manager manages major projects involving the development and execution of important new concepts or products including procurement and supply chain management. The Food & Beverage Category Manager is responsible for driving category management principles through the application of strong, proactive data analytics and consumer/shopper insights. The Manager will provide compelling presentations and other information in support of sales and category growth and guidance to other Category Management team members. This person will own the food category management strategy and is accountable for developing relationships at the vendor and customer level.

Responsibilities: Develop food service and beverage strategies and business plans to grow category sales and brand market share Conduct brand, segment and category analysis to evaluate performance against business objectives, identify competitive threats, and highlight product strengths/weaknesses. Work with design and construction teams for front and back of house development to support menu execution and effective merchandising Effectively negotiate with vendors to procure best costing and service for brand execution Develop and maintain forecast/inventories of food and beverage items and recommends pricing structures to achieve competitive gross margins Educate the franchisee and operations team how to achieve superior execution through establishment of standards, job aides, recipe guides and supporting training. Keeps abreast of consumer and industry insights that can be used to develop more powerful consumer communications, brand programming and product evolutions. Analyzes syndicated Nielsen and

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